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Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 2] |
Lucetta |
182 |
O, they love least that let men know their love.
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Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 3] |
Panthino |
307 |
He wonder'd that your lordship
Would suffer him to spend his youth at home,
While other men, of slender reputation,
Put forth their sons to seek preferment out:
Some to the wars, to try their fortune there;
Some to discover islands far away;
Some to the studious universities.
For any or for all these exercises,
He said that Proteus your son was meet,
And did request me to importune you
To let him spend his time no more at home,
Which would be great impeachment to his age,
In having known no travel in his youth.
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3 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 7] |
Julia |
1015 |
Not like a woman; for I would prevent
The loose encounters of lascivious men:
Gentle Lucetta, fit me with such weeds
As may beseem some well-reputed page.
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4 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 7] |
Lucetta |
1047 |
All these are servants to deceitful men.
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5 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 7] |
Julia |
1048 |
Base men, that use them to so base effect!
But truer stars did govern Proteus' birth
His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles,
His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate,
His tears pure messengers sent from his heart,
His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth.
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Two Gentlemen of Verona
[III, 1] |
Duke of Milan |
1176 |
But she I mean is promised by her friends
Unto a youthful gentleman of worth,
And kept severely from resort of men,
That no man hath access by day to her.
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7 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[IV, 1] |
Third Outlaw |
1596 |
Know, then, that some of us are gentlemen,
Such as the fury of ungovern'd youth
Thrust from the company of awful men:
Myself was from Verona banished
For practising to steal away a lady,
An heir, and near allied unto the duke.
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8 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[V, 2] |
Proteus |
2076 |
But pearls are fair; and the old saying is,
Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes.
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9 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[V, 4] |
Silvia |
2205 |
All men but Proteus.
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10 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[V, 4] |
Julia |
2256 |
Behold her that gave aim to all thy oaths,
And entertain'd 'em deeply in her heart.
How oft hast thou with perjury cleft the root!
O Proteus, let this habit make thee blush!
Be thou ashamed that I have took upon me
Such an immodest raiment, if shame live
In a disguise of love:
It is the lesser blot, modesty finds,
Women to change their shapes than men their minds.
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Two Gentlemen of Verona
[V, 4] |
Proteus |
2265 |
Than men their minds! 'tis true.
O heaven! were man
But constant, he were perfect. That one error
Fills him with faults; makes him run through all the sins:
Inconstancy falls off ere it begins.
What is in Silvia's face, but I may spy
More fresh in Julia's with a constant eye?
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Two Gentlemen of Verona
[V, 4] |
Valentine |
2310 |
These banish'd men that I have kept withal
Are men endued with worthy qualities:
Forgive them what they have committed here
And let them be recall'd from their exile:
They are reformed, civil, full of good
And fit for great employment, worthy lord.
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